Biography of Hymns: It Is Well With My Soul
GUNTHER SIMMERMACHER looks at the history of the hymn It Is Well With My Soul. The hymns we sing in […]
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Biography of Hymns
Perspectives Simmermacher
The World Cup’s Catholics
Chances are that a team from a traditionally Catholic country will win the 2014 World Cup, currently held in Brazil.’Only
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Books
A lavish guided tour of the Vatican
THE VATICAN: Secrets and Treasures of the Holy City, by Fr Michael Collins. Penguin/Dorling Kindersley (2014). 320pp. Reviewed by Gunther
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Easter Features History Lent Simmermacher
Who was Pontius Pilate?
His name is in the Creed and we encounter him every Holy Week. But who was Pontius Pilate? GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER looks
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Features History Simmermacher
Pope John Paul II’s very strange day
A hostage drama, a precarious flight and an unexpected stop in Johannesburg turned September 14, 1988 into one of the
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About us History of The Southern Cross
Southern Cross history – Part 6: 1970/80s
Advertising has always been a thorny terrain in terms of what is acceptable in a Catholic newspaper. Alcohol ads were
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About us History of The Southern Cross
Southern Cross history – Part 5: The 1950/60s
Managing editor Andrew Murray, appointed in late 1950, and editor Fr Louis Stubbs, appointed just two years earlier, steered The
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About us History of The Southern Cross
Southern Cross history – Part 4: The 1940s
Before becoming a bishop, Fr McCann had been The Southern Cross editor, from 1941-48. He would return for a second
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